Cloud Eye Control is the latest project from YoungCreature fave Anna Oxygen. Oxygen teamed up with Chi-Wang Yang and Miwa Matreyek to form a collaborative performance group who create live performances that incorporate music, video, puppetry, illusions, animation, constructed set pieces and costumes that almost pop my head off because they blow my mind so hard.
In their three works thus far, they have re-imagined Charles Lindburgh's solo trans-atlantic flight (Ocean Flight), made a "hyper opera" about an underground mine worker who goes through a "surreal and spooky" surgery so that scientists may find a powerful crystal that is housed in her body (Subterranean Heart), and told the story of a young woman who has her dreams stolen by a "dream sucking machine" (Final Space). Each work is equally amazing looking, and Anna Oxygen's psychedelic space pop is perfectly fitted to these performances. As much as I love her music, it seems her work is even better as part of this kind of collaboration.
Late last year Cloud Eye Control debuted their latest work,
Under Polaris, as part of the
TBA festival at the
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.
Under Polaris continues exploring the human relationship to science and technology, but also tackles the interdependence of humans and nature through the story of a woman on a mission to "preserve the finer elements of humanity in Arctic ice".
Cloud Eye Control is based in Los Angeles, but they are currently working on their 2009 schedule of performances...so hopefully someone will bring them to Chicago!!
Take a look at this excerpt from Under Polaris, and be sure to go to their
website to view clips from their past works.
